Prime Minister Narendra Modi says new set of guideliens will be introduced before May 18, 2020 for the fourth stage of country-wide lockdown.
- Centre to provide Rs 20 lakh crore financial package to make India self-dependent amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
- Says this would roughly equate 10 per cent of India’s gross domestic product.
- Modi talks of the necessity of bold reforms. Says they would spur business, generate investments and help ‘Make in India’.
- Stresses on local products.
- India’s tally of total cases positive to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was at 70,756 by May 12 morning, according to the Union health ministry.
- Of them, 22,455 were cured / discharged.
- The number of active cases: 46,008.
- The country has recorded 2,293 deaths from the ensuing COVID-19 disease.
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